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I'm sure that's been debunked on here before.


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NO - it has not been debunked.

This is the whole probelm with evolutionists - they have tainted the textbooks with their false teachings.
Evoloutionists of old used to put diagrams and fake photos in text books to show what they 'think' things would or should look like.

Problem is, some of this crapola is still in the textbooks. The evolutionists say that it's no big deal. And you want us to believe this nonsense? Garbage.


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QUOTE (Jerry Duke @ Dec 21 2005, 07:54 PM)
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QUOTE (Capn Caveman @ Oct 25 2005, 02:40 PM)
... developement of the foetus ...

Child in the womb

Evolutionists teach that human children in the womb have "gill slits". They fondly say, "Ontogeny Recapitulates Phylogeny." Impressive words, but still a lie. I met a student in graduate school in 2000 or 2001 who still believed the "gill slits" hoax was true science. Evolution is a pernicious lie.

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Science 5 September 1997:
Vol. 277. no. 5331, p. 1435
DOI: 10.1126/science.277.5331.1435a

Research News
DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY:
Haeckel's Embryos: Fraud Rediscovered
Elizabeth Pennisi
Using modern techniques, a British researcher has photographed embryos like those pictured in the famous, century-old drawings by Ernst Haeckel--proving that Haeckel's images were falsified. Haeckel once admitted to his peers that he doctored the drawings, but that confession was forgotten.
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"Haeckel’s drawings of 1874 are substantially fabricated. In supuser posted imageport of this view, I note that his oldest "fish" image is made up of bits and pieces from different animals—some of them mythical. It is not unreasonable to characterize this as ‘faking.’ …Sadly, it is the discredited 1874 drawings that are used in so many British and American biology textbooks today." (M.K. Richardson, "Haeckel’s Embryos, Continued," letter to Science, 281 (5381):12889, August 28, 1998).

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The problem with that photo is they do the wrong "same stage" there. One is done at the same stage of development (meaning, if it's a 9-month gestation, it's taken at the 3 month stage, and if it's a 12-month gestation, it's taken at the four-month stage, so as to always be at 1/3 gestation - just as an example). And the other is done at the same period of TIME, meaning if it's a 12-month gestation, they do it at 2 months. If it's a 9-month gestation, they do it at 2 months. If it's a 4-year gestation, they do it at 2 months.

It's deliberately misleading.

In other words, a lie.


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QUOTE (GeneSplicer @ Dec 21 2005, 05:31 PM)
QUOTE (Jerry Duke @ Dec 21 2005, 11:31 AM)
The term "dumb animal" is well-defined and has nothing to do with lack of intelligence. See Webster's Dictionary: dumb  adj.  2. without the power of speech: a dumb animal.


And as usual, Jerry cherry-picks his definitions. Here is the full definition list for dumb from webster.com. Funny how his “2” definition is not here. So which Webster’s dictionary did you get it from?

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Pronunciation: 'd&m
Function: adjective
Etymology: Middle English, from Old English; akin to Old High German tumb mute
1 a : lacking the human power of speech <dumb animals> b of a person, often offensive : lacking the ability to speak
2 : temporarily unable to speak (as from shock or astonishment) <struck dumb with fear>
3 : not expressed in uttered words <dumb grief>
4 : SILENT; also : TACITURN
5 : lacking some usual attribute or accompaniment; especially : having no means of self-propulsion <a dumb barge>
6 a : lacking intelligence : STUPID b : showing a lack of intelligence <asking dumb questions> c : requiring no intelligence <dumb luck>
7 : not having the capability to process data <a dumb terminal> -- compare INTELLIGENT 3a
synonym see STUPID
- dumb·ly  /'d&m-lE/ adverb
- dumb·ness noun


So you see, intelligence is a valid subject when it comes to the use of the word dumb.

Essentially the same definition is listed as #1 a in your quote which cites the term "dumb animals". My quote is from Webster's New Universal Unabridged Dictionary, copyright 1989. Definition #2 in that source is the definition which cites the well-known expression "dumb animal". Again, the quality of "dumbness" in the term "dumb animal" is not related to the intelligence of the animal, only to its lack of the powuser posted imageer of speech.

I think the only reason people think of themselves as animals in the first place is because of the pernicious effect of Evolutionist propaganda. The Bible makes it clear that human beings are made of different flesh than that of beasts, birds or fish. I also believe that things are not true simply because they are recorded in the Bible, but that they are in the Bible because they are true and verifiable by real science.

All flesh is not the same flesh: but there is one kind of flesh of men, another flesh of beasts, another of fishes, and another of birds. (I Corinthians 15:39)

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QUOTE (Jerry Duke @ Dec 21 2005, 08:35 PM)
The Bible makes it clear that human beings are made of different flesh than that of beasts, birds or fish.

Umm... WRONG.

And you say it's verifiable by real science. Show us.


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I think the only reason people think of themselves as animals in the first place is because of the pernicious effect of Evolutionist propaganda.


Not at all. Referring to a person in general as an animal is perceived by most to be an insult indicating a lack of being civilized or being savage and wild. Evolution does not even enter into the matter. Dumb, also viewed by the common use of the times, is more often used in reference to intellect while in reference to speech is a more arcane use of the term. But, if you must play word games or be pedantic when called to task, that is your choice.

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The Bible makes it clear that human beings are made of different flesh than that of beasts, birds or fish.


Hence why that is yet another claim that points to the nonsensical and unrealistic claims made by the bible that have resulted in its relegation to a book of myth.

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I also believe that things are not true simply because they are recorded in the Bible, but that they are in the Bible because they are true and verifiable by real science.


So, if they are so verifiable, then verify them. Most xians just rely upon the circular logic theist must engage in for the support of their particular superstition.


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QUOTE (Grumpy @ Dec 21 2005, 05:32 PM)
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Head-spinning would appear to be a good description of the process of trying to comprehend the magnitude of the scientific evidence against Evolution.


That is true any time you contemplate the magnitude of nothing because nothing has no magnitude.

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The probability of Evolution being true, by the proof of it given to me in college, is at least 12,000,000 magnitudes (powers of ten) smaller than the smallest measurable scale, below which threshold science cannot measure the difference between something and nothing.

For ye see your calling, brethren, how that not many wise men after the flesh, not many mighty, not many noble, are called: But God hath chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the wise; and God hath chosen the weak things of the world to confound the things which are mighty; And base things of the world, and things which are despised, hath God chosen, yea, and things which are not, to bring to nought things that are: That no flesh should glory in his presence. But of him are ye in Christ Jesus, who of God is made unto us wisdom, and righteousness, and sanctification, and redemption: That, according as it is written, He that glorieth, let him glory in the Lord. (I Corinthians 1:26-31)

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• Commit your life to Christ. If you are ready to turn your life over to Jesus, pray a prayer like this: Lord Jesus, I admit that I am a sinner. I know there is nothing I can do to get rid of my sin. Forgive me and take away my sin. Come into my life and and make me a brand-new person. Help me to follow You and learn more about You. I give my life to You. Amen.
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QUOTE (MXWordNerd @ Dec 21 2005, 08:45 PM)
QUOTE (Jerry Duke @ Dec 21 2005, 08:35 PM)
The Bible makes it clear that human beings are made of different flesh than that of beasts, birds or fish.

Umm... WRONG.

And you say it's verifiable by real science. Show us.

Tissue rejection.


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• Commit your life to Christ. If you are ready to turn your life over to Jesus, pray a prayer like this: Lord Jesus, I admit that I am a sinner. I know there is nothing I can do to get rid of my sin. Forgive me and take away my sin. Come into my life and and make me a brand-new person. Help me to follow You and learn more about You. I give my life to You. Amen.
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QUOTE (Jerry Duke @ Dec 21 2005, 04:57 PM)
QUOTE (MXWordNerd @ Dec 21 2005, 08:45 PM)
QUOTE (Jerry Duke @ Dec 21 2005, 08:35 PM)
The Bible makes it clear that human beings are made of different flesh than that of beasts, birds or fish.

Umm... WRONG.

And you say it's verifiable by real science. Show us.

Tissue rejection.

You’re joking right? Using this logic, then your god made several groups of humans of different flesh than each other due to the same tissue rejection, not to mention blood rejection.


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QUOTE (Jerry Duke @ Dec 21 2005, 08:57 PM)
QUOTE (MXWordNerd @ Dec 21 2005, 08:45 PM)
QUOTE (Jerry Duke @ Dec 21 2005, 08:35 PM)
The Bible makes it clear that human beings are made of different flesh than that of beasts, birds or fish.

Umm... WRONG.

And you say it's verifiable by real science. Show us.

Tissue rejection.

That's not proof of anything. Actually, men have lived with baboon hearts inside their chests, and at the same time, humans have "rejected" tissue from other humans after transplant.

Are you really this devoid of logic and knowledge?


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QUOTE (Messenger @ Dec 21 2005, 08:20 PM)
NO - it has not been debunked.

This is the whole probelm with evolutionists - they have tainted the textbooks with their false teachings.
Evoloutionists of old used to put diagrams and fake photos in text books to show what they 'think' things would or should look like.

Problem is, some of this crapola is still in the textbooks. The evolutionists say that it's no big deal. And you want us to believe this nonsense? Garbage.

Looks like you made another mistake:
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I have seen textbooks that show Haeckel's embryos as proof of evolution, and those have been proved since 1894 to be false.



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Haeckel faked his pictures of embryos to make them look more alike than they are.

Source:

Wells, Jonathan, 2000. Icons of Evolution, Washington DC: Regnery Publishing Inc., pp. 81-109.

Behe, Michael, "Firing Line with William Buckley", PBS, 13 Dec. 1997.

Response:

Haeckel's pictures are irrelevant to the question of whether the embryos are similar. What matters are the embryos themselves. Within a group, early embryos do show many similarities. For example, all vertebrates develop a notochord, body segments, pharyngeal gill pouches, and a post-anal tail. These fundamental similarities indicate a common evolutionary history. Other embryological similarities are found in other lineages, such as mollusks, arthropods, and annelids. These similarities have been long known. Professor Agassiz in 1849, for example, said, "We find, too, that the young bat, or bird, or the young serpent, in certain periods of their growth, resemble one another so much that he would defy any one to tell one from the other--or distinguish between a bat and a snake." (Scientific American 1849)


The embryos also show some differences, which Haeckel glossed over. However, differences should also be expected, since the animals are not all equally related. It is the pattern of both similarities and differences that displays patterns of descent. Organisms that are less closely related are expected to look less similar.


When Haeckel's inaccuracies were exposed, authors started using corrected versions. Science tends to be self-correcting.

Links:

Myers, P. Z., 2003. Wells and Haeckel's embryos: A review of chapter 5 of Icons of Evolution. http://www.talkorigins.org/faqs/wells/haeckel.html

References:

Scientific American, 1849. Young Mamalia. Scientific American 4(51) (8 Sep.): 403. Reprinted in Scientific American 281(3) (Sep. 1999): 10.

Further Reading:

Pickett, Kurt M., John W. Wenzel and Steven W. Rising. 2005. Iconoclasts of evolution: Haeckel, Behe, Wells and the ontogeny of a fraud. The American Biology Teacher 67(5): 275-282. http://darwin.bc.asu.edu/pub/pickett.pdf

Richardson, M. K., J. Hanken, L. Selwood, G. M. Wright, R. J. Richards and C. Pieae, 1998. Haeckel, embryos, and evolution. Science 280: 983-986.

Richardson, M. K. and G. Keuck, 2002. Haeckel's ABC of evolution and development. Biol. Rev. 77: 495-528. (technical)



That clears that up.

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You're very lazy, you know ... took me all of two minutes to find that by looking up "Haeckel".


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The probability of Evolution being true, by the proof of it given to me in college, is at least 12,000,000 magnitudes (powers of ten) smaller than the smallest measurable scale, below which threshold science cannot measure the difference between something and nothing.


Then I would call up that college and demand my money back because the fact that evolution occured can only be doubted by those ignorant of the evidence. Trying to apply probability to living systems requires a very extensive knowledge of all the conditions relavant to that living system, a condition rarely met. Without that extensive knowledge you get garbage in garbage out GIGO. Your 12,000,000 magnitudes number is an example of that garbage.

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Jerry, it is highly likely that the 'proof' you saw is very wrong, and wrong because it used each sequence of whatever it studied (probably DNA) as an independent event. This is not so. Amok posted a great page that explains why this is incorrect. Yuo can either look that up, or when I get on my home computer where I bookmarked that page I will repost it for you to examine.


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QUOTE (Kaeroll @ Dec 21 2005, 03:14 PM)
QUOTE (Messenger @ Dec 21 2005, 08:20 PM)
NO - it has not been debunked.

This is the whole probelm with evolutionists - they have tainted the textbooks with their false teachings.
Evoloutionists of old used to put diagrams and fake photos in text books to show what they 'think' things would or should look like.

Problem is, some of this crapola is still in the textbooks.  The evolutionists say that it's no big deal.  And you want us to believe this nonsense?  Garbage.

Looks like you made another mistake:
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I have seen textbooks that show Haeckel's embryos as proof of evolution, and those have been proved since 1894 to be false.



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Claim

Haeckel faked his pictures of embryos to make them look more alike than they are.

Source:

Wells, Jonathan, 2000. Icons of Evolution, Washington DC: Regnery Publishing Inc., pp. 81-109.

Behe, Michael, "Firing Line with William Buckley", PBS, 13 Dec. 1997.

Response:

Haeckel's pictures are irrelevant to the question of whether the embryos are similar. What matters are the embryos themselves. Within a group, early embryos do show many similarities. For example, all vertebrates develop a notochord, body segments, pharyngeal gill pouches, and a post-anal tail. These fundamental similarities indicate a common evolutionary history. Other embryological similarities are found in other lineages, such as mollusks, arthropods, and annelids. These similarities have been long known. Professor Agassiz in 1849, for example, said, "We find, too, that the young bat, or bird, or the young serpent, in certain periods of their growth, resemble one another so much that he would defy any one to tell one from the other--or distinguish between a bat and a snake." (Scientific American 1849)


The embryos also show some differences, which Haeckel glossed over. However, differences should also be expected, since the animals are not all equally related. It is the pattern of both similarities and differences that displays patterns of descent. Organisms that are less closely related are expected to look less similar.


When Haeckel's inaccuracies were exposed, authors started using corrected versions. Science tends to be self-correcting.

Links:

Myers, P. Z., 2003. Wells and Haeckel's embryos: A review of chapter 5 of Icons of Evolution. http://www.talkorigins.org/faqs/wells/haeckel.html

References:

Scientific American, 1849. Young Mamalia. Scientific American 4(51) (8 Sep.): 403. Reprinted in Scientific American 281(3) (Sep. 1999): 10.

Further Reading:

Pickett, Kurt M., John W. Wenzel and Steven W. Rising. 2005. Iconoclasts of evolution: Haeckel, Behe, Wells and the ontogeny of a fraud. The American Biology Teacher 67(5): 275-282. http://darwin.bc.asu.edu/pub/pickett.pdf

Richardson, M. K., J. Hanken, L. Selwood, G. M. Wright, R. J. Richards and C. Pieae, 1998. Haeckel, embryos, and evolution. Science 280: 983-986.

Richardson, M. K. and G. Keuck, 2002. Haeckel's ABC of evolution and development. Biol. Rev. 77: 495-528. (technical)



That clears that up.

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You're very lazy, you know ... took me all of two minutes to find that by looking up "Haeckel".

Excuse me - but did you even read what you posted?



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I mentioned nothing of gills I was more referring to the TAIL! And c'mon, could you even with all that godly wisdom tell the difference between a rabbit embryo and a human?
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